Carcharoth wrote:
I suppose the idea is that most people using that
search box want
"go" functionality,
Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers.
not "search" functionality, but seeing as
Google's default is
"search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to getting a list
of search results and clicking the top one than might be realised.
Indeed. If there's to be one box, clearly it should be "Search",
not "Go". (And the search results page already has a "Wikipedia has
an article on %s" link right at the top, if there's an exact match.
So, retconned, "Go" is/was kinda like the Google "I'm feeling
lucky"
button.)